July 29, 2016 Friday



Today Sanjay's bail has been temporarily halted.

Today's hearing was brief.

Date has been set for August 5 for changing the court and for
allowing intervention.

There will be another date for the argument against bail.

Unit 50000 eV


Willard Gibbs was presenting to the world a revolutionary idea.

It was that of the "free energy" (even as I must insist that nothing in this world is for free).

Gibbs originally defined the idea of free energy graphically.

In his first 1873 paper titled:
"Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids"
he used the state of the body using the 2 coordinates of entropy and volume.

In his second paper published later in the same year titled:
"A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces",
he added the third coordinate representing the energy of the body.

But as I said, it was his third 300-page treatise that would prove to be his magnum opus.

In this mammoth 300-page disquisition he applied the
first law of thermodynamics (energy can be transformed but not created),
the second law of thermodynamics (total entropy of isolated system increases over time) and
the fundamental thermodynamic relation (dU = TdS - PdV)
to predict and quantify thermodynamic reaction tendencies in any any thermodynamic system.

This he did in a visual, 3-D graphical language of Lagrangian calculus and phase transitions.

Now each word in the above 2 statements need in depth explanation.

Which I will need to do very soon.

For that, stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/

Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.